Improvement in the mantjfaotube of buttons



Aiginiteh tstrs stent @ffice LEWIS MOSES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JAMES O.

WALTER. OF HARLEM, NEW YORK.Y

IMPROVEMENT IN THE illiANUACTUREv 0F BUTTONS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN Be it known that I, LEWIS MGSES, of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Buttons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a central section of my improved button.

Figure 2 is an inverted plan View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates-t0 a new manner of securing the eyes or loops of glass buttons to the body of the buttons, and consists in the use ot" liquid glass, mixed with nely-powdered glass or other mineral matter, by which a sheet-metal plate, -to which the said loop is secured, is soldered, secured, or cemented to the under side ofthe button, in which a recess has been formed for the purpose.

This invention is applicable to all glass or porcelain buttons and ornaments, such as breastpns, ite. Herettofore the ends of the loops were generally cast directly inte the button', a process in which much care and labor areinvolved, and one which does not permit the construction of very thin buttons or ornaments. Various t kinds of cement were tried to secure the loop to the button, but none was adhesive enough to make lthe article substantial and strong enough. y

My composition is such that the metal plate is firmly secured to the glass button, so that, when the same is torn oli' by force, pieces ofthe glass button will remain on the cement.

A represents the glass or porcelain button or other ornament, in the under side of which a circular recess is formed. Bis a sheet-metal plate, circular, with upturned edges, iis-shown. O is the eye or loop, and is soldered or otherwise secured to the plate B. The cup formed in the plate B is tted with a composition of liquid glass, with a iinely-powdered mineral matter, which` is made ofthe consistency of pretty still' pastewllcn applied. The plate ivith the cement isthen placed against the button, into the circular recess, and the whole is. then subjected to a suidcient heat until the cement is dried.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-4 1. The cement, consisting of liquid glass and finely-powdered mineral matter, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

2. The plate B, containing the cement filled into the circular recess in the button A, und subJccted to heat, as herein set -forth, for the purpose specified.

L. MOSES.

Witnesses:

WM.Y F. McNuMARA, ALEX. F. RoBERTs. 

